Tree to 15 m tall; bark smooth, mottled dark grey, light greenish grey and orange; branches steeply ascending. Juvenile leaves petiolate, alternate, deltoid to ovate, to 8 cm long, 6 cm wide, scabrid, green; adult leaves petiolate, alternate, lanceolate, 6–11 cm long, 1–2.5 cm wide, mucronate, glossy, green; reticulation moderate to dense with obscure island oil glands. Inflorescence axillary, unbranched; peduncles strap-like, to 5 cm long, 3- or 7-flowered; buds sessile, elongate, swollen at join, to 6 cm long, 1.6 cm diam., scar present; operculum horn-shaped, much longer than hypanthium, warty; stamens erect; anthers versatile, dorsifixed, narrowly oblong; ovules in 6 or 8 vertical rows; flowers yellowish green. Fruit sessile, campanulate to obconical, to 2.7 cm long, 3.5 cm wide; disc ascending, largely covering the 3 ascending valves; seeds black, ovoid or flattened ovoid, sometimes irregularly so, shallowly reticulate, hilum ventral or terminal. Flowers Jun.–Jan.
VVP, OtP, GGr. Native to south-western Western Australia, occasionally escaping cultivation in Victoria.
